"Middle Bengali" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, Calcutta University Press, page 134",
          "text": "Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a ‘Modern English’ with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.",
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        "The ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali."
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          "Old Bengali",
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